What Ever Happened to the Cast of ALF?

Dr. Mary Albright was Dick Solomon’s intellectual equal—and his complete opposite. Smart, skeptical, and perpetually exasperated, she was the human anchor to the aliens’ chaos. Jane Curtin played her with impeccable timing and understated brilliance, grounding even the wildest scenes with one perfectly delivered line or glance.

Curtin came into 3rd Rock as comedy royalty. She’d been an original cast member on Saturday Night Live, a lead in Kate & Allie, and one of the sharpest straight women in sitcom history. Her calm, razor-edged humor balanced John Lithgow’s mania like comedic yin and yang.